December 23

Rural Poverty Report 2011. IFAD

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The International Fund for Agricultural Development's (IFAD) newly released Rural Poverty Report 2011: New realities, new challenges: new opportunities for tomorrow's generation reports that, during the past decade, the overall rate of extreme poverty in rural areas of developing countries has dropped from 48 per cent to 34 per cent, lead by dramatic gains in East Asia.  But the report also points to the persistence of poverty in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Read more and download the report in full from the website (full-text, pdf).UN Pulse : Permanent Link: Rural Poverty Report 2011

April 23

Food Prices And The Rural Poor. International Fund For Agricultural Development

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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has gathered information from its partners and staff on the ground around the world on the impact of rising food prices on poor rural people and posted the synthesis of responses on its website.

UN Pulse Permanent Link: Food prices and the rural poor